Overview

  • Accepting applications
  • Open & closing dates

    05/19/2021 to 06/08/2021

  • Service

    Excepted

  • Pay scale & grade

    FV J

  • Salary

    $83,458 to $129,384 per year

    Locality increase will be determined at time of job offer.

  • Appointment type

    Permanent

  • Work schedule

    Full-time

  • Apply Here: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/601938500

Duties

Summary

Due to the Pandemic and individual states with different phases of reopening, the selectee’s report date to the official duty station/facility may be delayed until such time as employees are allowed to report to the workplace. The person selected may telework up to the maximum extent possible, up to and including full time, until it is determined by state and Federal officials that employees are allowed to report to the workplace where this position is located, on a regular basis.

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Responsibilities

These types of positions administer, develop, deliver, and support information technology (IT) systems and
services. The paramount requirement is knowledge of IT principles, concepts, and methods; e.g., data
storage, software applications, and networking. Information technology refers to systems and services used
in the automated acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching,
interchange, transmission, assurance, or reception of information. Information technology includes
computers, network components, peripheral equipment, software, firmware, services, and related sources.

As a Data Scientist at FAA, responsibilities may include:

  • Design and build Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) using PostGIS and PostgresQL relational databases. Performs data access analysis design, and data profiling to effectively design and implement a scalable GIS Data platform.
  • Develop strategies for data acquisitions/ETL, archive policies, and implementation of a GIS database.
  • Define Data Standards, Policies and Governance Strategies for the enterprise.
  • Translate business needs into long-term architecture solutions including data and security policies.
  • Define, design, and build dimensional databases.
  • Develop data design blueprints, evaluating data loads and provides design for suitable GIS structures for effective geo spatial analysis.
  • Reviews and develops object and data models and the metadata repository to structure the data for better management and quicker access.
  • Work experience with AWS RDS, PostgresQL, POSTGIS.
  • Work with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), ArcGIS and other online mapping tools
  • Collect and combining data from multiple sources
  • Design and develop tools and techniques for analysis
  • Evaluate, document, and communicate research processes, analyses, and results to customers, peers, and leadership
  • Create interpretable visualizations

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

  • US Citizenship is required.
  • Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
  • Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents)

Qualifications

For additional information please view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for IT Specialist, please visit:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/2200/information-technology-it-management-series-2210-alternative-a/

To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I / FG/GS-13. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized experience may include but not limited to: Experience designing, architecting, and developing map based solutions using ESRI tools or similar, experience using major types of imagery and creating GIS datasets.

Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list.